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- Written by Phoenix Rotary President Phil Johnson
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Once again the Horbury and Ossettt Phoenix Rotary Club has brought joy and fundraising together at Christmas.All the members of Phoenix Rotary Club shared in elfing duties on the Santa and Sleigh tours around Horbury, Ossett and Gawthorpe in the run up to the holiday.
Christmas light switch on in Horbury, Santa gift giving in Gawthorpe, six evenings of street tours and four days of Santa and Sleigh with Rudolph at Morrisons, Dewsbury Road, Wakefield brightened up the festive season for hundreds of children.
An additional day of supporting Santa handing out carrots for children to leave out for Santa’s Reindeers raised a further £271 for Clic Sgts Appeal a charity sponsored by Morrison's.
We are pleased to tell you that over £5000 was generously donated by the public and that this will all be spent on good causes in the year to come.
Many thanks to all who supported Phoenix Rotary Club Santas Sleigh collections this year.
Keep watching our bulletins for information regarding where the donations are spent.
We look forward to seeing you all again during 2020 especially at Horbury Show.
Seasons Greetings and a Happy New Year from all the Phoenix Rotary Club Members
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It was a great Christmas atmosphere in the atrium entrance at Morrison's Wakefield today and in the afternoon Susan Barr of Horbury organised a performance of cheery Christmas songs... wonderful voices of all ages.
Thank you to the shoppers for their very generous charitable donations.
See the short video:
- Written by Phil Johnson
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The District 1040 Environmental Award was presented to The Rotary Club of Horbury and Ossett Phoenix by Past District Governor Nigel Arthurs at the Club’s meeting on Thursday 7th November 2019.
The Shield is awarded annually to the winning Club that has demonstrated effective and beneficial outcomes with projects that involve service to the community, international aid and sustainability.
PDG Nigel said that the evaluation of applications took into consideration the carbon footprint of projects, new concepts and innovation, community impact and enabling the public to enjoy outcomes, personal involvement by Rotarians, preservation of biodiversity and the adoptable replication of ideas.
The award was presented to President Phil Johnson (pictured) who received it on behalf of Rotarian Nick Bardsley (Community and Vocational Chairman) and The Phoenix Rotary Club.
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The Club, partners and friends had a wonderful evening on Thursday 24th October 2019 at Wakefield Colleges Gaskell's Restaurant, which is operated by the Hospitality & Catering Students from Wakefield College, and provides some of the best value for money delicacies in Wakefield! As usual the fine dining was of very high standard in terms of food, presentation and service.
Congratulations to the Students and their Tutors.
A few of the great team are pictured here:
World Polio Day
During our evening at Gaskell's we held a raffle in support of the "Global Polio Eradication Initiative" which is organised by Rotary International and other organisations. This initiative was launched more than 30 years ago and at that point, polio paralysed 1,000 children every day! We’ve made great progress against the disease since then. Polio cases have dropped by 99.9%, from 350,000 cases in 1988 in 125 countries to 33 cases of Wild Poliovirus in 2018 in just two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. And we remain committed to the end. With polio nearly eradicated, Rotary and it's partners must sustain this progress.
Rotary is committed to the absolute eradication of polio in all its forms. Towards this goal our Gaskell's raffle raised £128. Not much you might think, but we will apply to the Bill Gates Foundation, who have pledged to match Rotary fundraising for polio eradication by 2 to 1. So our £128 will increase to £384 and that will mean almost 500 more individual polio vaccinations.
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We had a great night out - and thanks to the
very generous audience £773 was raised.
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Most Rotary Clubs have a new President every Year (Rotary Year is July to June). The President Elect is next year's President and the Vice President is President the year after.
Here is our current President's Team:
Left: Vice President Robert Trout. Centre: President Elect Steve Driver. Right: President Phil Johnson.
See list of all Phoenix Presidents - past and present
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Interested in finding out more about your local Rotary Club use the "Contact Us" link here or on the main menu.
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July 2019... Yet another bench was replaced this week in Horbury, courtesy of The Rotary Club of Horbury and Ossett Phoenix.
The bench was installed by our Immediate Past President Alan Hudders, Past President Mick Miller, Phoenix member Stuart Wilby and Roger Parkinson PHF. Roger gives a great deal of time as a local Woodland Creation Champion and Volunteer Speaker for the Woodland Trust, as well as through his leading role for Wakefield Tree Wardens Charter Branch. As if that wasn't enough he also is a great friend of Phoenix Rotary and regular volunteer on our local projects. This skillful team spent hours overcoming some technical difficulties in site preparation and previously team member Stuart welded extra steel tube to the legs of the refurbished bench to bring the seat height up to the new regulation height.
The bench is now fully installed and in use in the grassed area at the junction of Quarry Hill and Horbury Bypass.
Well done all and a lovely job it is too:
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New Defibrillator for Horbury... located outside the Working Members Club in Cluntergate.
Jointly funded and organised by WMC and the Rotary Club of Horbury and Ossett Phoenix.
Further information will be available in the coming weeks so please "watch this space"
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A huge thank you to all of you who either attended or supported The Horbury Show yesterday. The turnout was much higher than in previous years and we hope you thoroughly enjoyed the day. We are non profit making and all give freely of our time. All money raised goes to charitable causes and over the last two years we have made 150 payments to charities, local community groups and good causes which total £50,000. Two thirds of that total amount has come from the Horbury Show.
If you have the skills, energy and enthusiasm to work with us to make our community a better place to live, then please feel free to contact us. We are happy to accept support in whatever way you feel comfortable at either next year's show or other projects we are involved with throughout the year.
More photos of the Horbury Show here
- Written by Nick Bardsley
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The Horbury and Ossett Phoenix project to plant a commemorative Oak Tree in Carr Lodge Park in remembrance of the people of Horbury who fell in the First World War (as 2018 was the centenary of the end of WW1) inspired our local Community Group - Friends of Horbury Parks, to plant further commemorative Oak trees in Horbury Bridge, Horbury Junction and South Ossett.
The photographs show:
1) Nick Bardsley (left), Chair of Phoenix Community and Vocational Committee and Councillor Darren Byford (right), Secretary of Friends of Horbury Park, who planted the second of three further commemorative Oak trees on Tuesday the 28th of May in the grass triangle on Daw Lane towards Horbury Junction, opposite Chestnut House (and with thanks to John and Liz Faulkner for taking delivery of the tree and it's protective ironworks before planting).
2) The Oak tree planted in Reid Park, Horbury Bridge.
The final tree will be planted in Illingworth Park, South Ossett in due course.
Thanks to Darren, who created the successful bids which financed the purchase of the three further trees, we will have a total of four commemorative Oak trees across our community.